CDN » Akamai

Company

Akamai is one of the oldest CDNs and generally considered to be the largest global CDN. They have 'servers everywhere' and a wide range of products and services. The company is actively involved in Let's Encrypt and is pushing HTTP/2 adoption.
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Products

View the table below for more insight into Akamai products.Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.

Network

Akamai does not publish specifics on how large their CDN network is and where the POPs are, other than 'The Akamai Intelligent Platform is unparalleled in terms of its distributed footprint, consisting of software that resides on over 175,000 servers in more than 1,300 networks in 100+ countries.' as per the Intelligent Platform page on the Akamai website.

Pricing

Akamai typically requires annual contracts with pricing depending on traffic volume and what features/services you need. Get in touch to learn more about their services and prices.Akamai locations and sales contact info

Pricing & contract duration

Minimum contract term

12 months

Minimum monthly costs

Unknown

Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests

Unknown

Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred

Unknown

NA/EU traffic (low volume)

Unknown

APAC traffic (low volume)

Unknown

LATAM traffic (low volume)

Unknown

Features

View the tables below for more insight into the features Akamai supports.Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.

About us

CDN Planet is built and operated by Aaron Peters and Sajal Kayan.
As former web performance consultants and the current co-founders of TurboBytes (Multi-CDN),
we have 6+ years experience with all things CDN, including DNS, performance monitoring and networking.